Thursday, January 16, 2014

Reading list: Boy, did we ever stiff those Iranians!

 
Gatestone Institute: Kerry's Peace Process Double Standards It is interesting to see how one comment from an Israeli minister has managed to strain relations between the U.S. Administration and Israel, while fiery rhetoric and street demonstrations against Kerry and Obama in the Palestinian territories and Arab capitals are completely ignored by Washington. If Kerry really cares about the peace process, he also needs to ask the Palestinian Authority and Arab governments to lower the tone and stop inciting against him and the U.S. Unless, of course, those statements and protests do not offend him. Khaled Abu Toameh

George Will has this point of view: ‘Iran is Claiming Victory and I Think Probably Rightly So’  


JAWA: John Kerry Opens Mouth, Proves He's Stupid   "Of course, many Leftists would simply call this level of stupidity sophistication, not knowing that to be sophisticated has until recent times been a bad thing.
Your Sec. State:
And so we have a huge common interest in dealing with this issue of poverty, which in many cases is the root cause of terrorism
Michael Rubin in 2008 asked; Can a Nuclear Iran Be Contained or Deterred?

 Ya’alon apologizes for personally offending Kerry, but does not recant   "Israel’s Defense Minister Ya’alon was forced to apologize Tuesday night, Jan. 14, for off-the-record remarks he made to reporters, which relegated US Secretary of State John Kerry’s role in the oft-stalled Israel-Palestinian peace talks to “misplaced obsession and messianic fervor.” He was also quoted as dismissing the US security plan as “not worth the paper it was written on.' ”

Victor Davis Hanson: The prejudice against Israel in diplomatic matters is as troubling as more crude bigotry against Jews.    ... "The sort of anti-Semitism we see from buffoons like Dieudonné M’bala M’bala is appalling, but the double standard to which Israel is held in matters of foreign policy by those who should know better is in many ways even more galling."

Instructing Iran in Terrorist Etiquette   ... "Iran’s senior officials suffer from no such delicacy toward the U.S. On Tuesday, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani gloated on Twitter that in the recent Geneva agreement, “world powers surrendered to Iranian nation’s will.” Meanwhile, Iran’s foreign minister ... Javad Zarif, made a point while visiting Lebanon of going to lay a wreath on the grave of assassinated Hezbollah terrorist kingpin... Zarif did this before a bevy of photographers, ensuring that his thumb-in-the-eye to the U.S. would make news."
Political Cartoons by Glenn McCoy
 
Obama Tells Congress to ‘Give Peace a Chance’ After Setting Jan. 20 (in time for the State of the Union address)Iran Deal Implementation  “ 'Given these stakes, it’s regrettable that the president does not want to work with Congress to bolster his negotiating hand with additional sanctions, which would go into effect should Iran fail to meet its commitments. If Iran is committed to comprehensively addressing its nuclear program, there is no reason such legislation shouldn’t be welcomed.' ”
 

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